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The Consul of Sodom

The Consul of Sodom

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 8, 2009

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

Drama

User Score

59%

Original Title

El cónsul de Sodoma

Director

Sigfrid Monleón

Description

Fascinating journey through the life and work of the prestigious Catalan poet Jaime Gil de Biedma, both marked by sexuality and eroticism. Charismatic and somewhat eccentric, brilliant intellectual with extraordinary sensitivity and member of Barcelona's 'gauche divine' in the 60s, Gil de Biedma liked to describe himself as a 'poet of experience' while he suffered dreadfully from the dichotomy strangling him: bourgeois and executive for a multinational by day, communist and homosexual poet by night.